Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-17
CHARGES AGAINST AN OFFICER.
John Herman Brings Officer Lowell Be
fore the Police Commissioners.

fore the Police Commissioners.
Charges of conduct unbecoming an officer
were yesterday filed with the Police Com
missioners by John Herman, who was
taken in charge by officers Lowell and Nc
Cormack at Fourth and L streets, last Sun
day morning, together with Dennis Hag-
gerty and Kate Dooley, and charged with
disturbing the peace. When the cases came
up in the Police Court he was discharged.
In his complaint, Herman, who is tailor
in the employ of Anderson & Johnson,
| alleges that the officer, on August 18th,
while on duty and discharging the func-
tons of his office, did then and there con-
duct himself in manner unbecoming an
| officer, as follows: That at the hour of A.
NJ, while he (Herman) was on his way to
the depot, intending to start on the o'clock
train for San Francisco to attend to matters
of business of great importance, he heard
loud and unusual noises proceeding from
the southwest corner of Fourth and |,
streets, and upon looking in the direction
whence came the noises, discovered man
and woman engaged in a quarrel and
making demonstrations toward each other.
as If they were about to engage in fisticuff
encounter. Being curious to know the
cause of the difficulty, he stopped and
watched them for few moments While
he was thus engaged officers Lowell and
Mccormack came up and placed the par
ties under arrest. He was in the act of re-
Stunning his footsteps toward the depot,
when officer Mccormack addressing him,
exclaimed: Hold on, we want you as a
witness He accompanied the officer to
the city prison, where the day iaier was in
formed by officer Mccormack that Herman
nd rtyIt,
stead of being detained as witness he was
charged with the crime of disturbing the
peace, and he is informed and believes that
he was thus charged at the instance and
request of officer Lowell. Herman further
states IN the charges that officer Lowell has
TOR long time entertained feeling of en-
nifty against him, because the latter was
witness against Lowell's father while he
was on trial for murder in the Superior
Court in 1885, and that the charge preferred
by Lowell against him was actuated by
personal enmity, and not because Lowell
believed he had violated public law.
officer Lowell states that he and officer
Mccormack heard and saw disturbance
IN progress, and proceeded to attend to it.
As they came up, one of three parties who
seemed to be connected with the trouble
started to move away, when officer McCor-
mack called to him to stop, and it proved
to be Herman, who was taken to the sta
hon-house with the others. Lowell alleges
that the arrest was made quietly and in the
usual course of business; that he had little
to say to Herman, and did not i'll use him.
that Herman did not explain the circum-
stances Of his being present at the
scene OF the disturbance, nor say
anything, SO far as he is aware,
of his desire to take the train
for San Francisco. On the contrary, when
officer Mccormack halted him on L street
he was walking up that street, and not
fact of Herman's having been witness
against John Lowell in the Superior Court
cut any figure in the case, and expresses his
oellef that he can show that he did moth
ing unbecoraing an officer" in connec-
ton with the arrest.
The Police Commissioners will meet at
P. NJ. tomorrow, when date for hearing
the matter will be fixed, and the parties
given opportunity to procure their wit
nesses.